Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1882 — FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The Senate passed a joint resolntion, at its session on the Bth inst, to allow the employes of the Government printing office pay for time lost during the Garfield obsequies.. Mr. Beck gave notice of an amendment to the Internal Revenue bill subjecting duties on imports to a discount of 10 per cent, after January next, and to a similar reduction after the July following. Mr. Morrill submitted amendments made by the Republican caucus. The River and Harbor bill coming up in committee of the whole, discussion was renewed on the item for tho survey of the Hennepin canal. The latter scheme was modified to provide that the Secretary of War can use SIOO,OOO in surveying and locating a canal from Hennepin to Rock Island, and in making estimates for its cost and maintenance. Mr. Logan secured an amendment for the survey of the Illinois and Michigan canal. Mr. Ransom proposed an appropriation/of $500,000 for the improvement of tho Potomac river flats. The President made the following nominations: J. A. Zabriskie, of Arizona, to bo United States Attorney for Arizona ; Zan B. Tidball, of New York, to be United States Marshal of Arizona; William P. Chandlers, of Illinois, to be United States Surveyor General of Idaho; David R. B. Pride, of Idaho, to be Register of the Land Office at Boise City, Idaho. In the House, Mr. Crapo submitted' the report of the conference committee on the bill to extend the charters of national banks. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole. An amendment to restrict the National Board of Health to an investigation of cholera and yellow fever was rejected, and it was resolved to add small-pox to the list. Mr. Cox proposed the abolition of the board, but, after arguing against its right to investigate diseases, withdrew his amendment Mr. Kasson secured an appropriation of $45,000 for the enlargement of the publio building at Des Moines. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, finding legislation too dull, arraigned John D. White, his colleague, as “ a slanderous man, filled with malice,” but Mr. Browne, of Indiana, forestalled the motion by protesting against turning the halls of Congress into a beer garden. The bill granting right of way through tho Papago Indian reservation to the Arizona Southern railroad was passed by the Senate on the 10th. Mr. Morrill reported the House bill reducing internal-revenue taxation, with amendments catting down the . customs duties on sugars, steel rails and manufactures from hoop, band or scroll iron. Mr. Plumb reported a bill to repeal all laws granting lands to tho State of Missouri to aid m tho extension of the Iron Mountain railroad. The River and Harbor bill was taken up, and an amendment appropriating $590,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac flats was adopted by 52 to 7. The House, by a vote of 108 to 78, adopted the conference report on the bill to extend the charters of national banks. A bill was passed authorizing the transfer of property of the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home to the Garfield Memorial Hospital Mr. White introduced a resolution for a constitutional amendment to prohibit trie abridgment of rights of citizens on aocount of sex. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, discussed and amended. Mr. Dingley introduced a bill for a commission to inquire into the condition of the ship-building iuterests and to sugerest methods to restore the foreign carrying trade.

The conference report on the national bank charter bill was agreed to by the Senate on the 11th inst The river and harbor bill was completed in committee of the whole, ita amount being $20,924,175, and one or two feeble attempts at action .upon it were made. Mr. Ingalls denounced the measure as an annual shame, scandal and disgrace. Mr. Morrill made a favorable report on the bill to repeal the export duty on tobacco, and Mr. Groome reported an act to prevent the payment of double pensions. The President nominated Frederick T. Dubois to be Marshal for Idaho, Joseph W, Robbins to be Surveyor General for Arizona, and Alley A. Adie to be Third Assistant Secretary of State. The House spent the day in working on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in committee of the whole. An amendment was adopted authorizing the establishment of an industrial Indian school on the Pawnee reservation in Nebraska. The appropriation for tiie geological survey wsis increased to $220,000. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill occupied the exclusive attention of the Senate, at its session on the 12th inst. On the Hennepin canal proposition Mr. Pendleton failed to secure the striking out of the words authorizing the location of the cut. The amendment appropriating $20,000 for completing surveys of the Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal was concurred in. The bill was thm passed by a vote of 39 to 23. Tho Sundry Civil Appropriation bill engaged the attention of the House. The item of $2,400,000 for public printing caused Messrs. Atkins and Randall (Democrats) to declare that such deficiencies arose from executive maladministration, while Messrs. Hiscock and Robeson (Republicans) maintained that they occurred through necessity. It was agreed that Supreme Court reports shall be published at the Government office and sold at 10 per cent over the cost price. Ninety minutes were wasted in a debate over the removal of committee stenographers. Mr. Blackburn offered an amendment, which was adopted, for the payment of one month’s extra salary to employes of the House. A joint resolution appropriating $50,000 toward American representation in the international fishery exhibition at London was passed by the Senate on the 13th inst. A discussion as to the order of business called out speeches from Messrs. Pendleton, Sherman, Beck, Windom and Butler, when it was decided to take up the Tax bill. Mr. Yoorhees read a defense of Gen. Hancock’s attitude on the tariff issue. Mr. M&lione reported back the House bill to establish a bureau of animal industry. Mr. Voorhees secured the adoption of a resolution to inquire mto the expediency of purchasing and publishing the manuscripts of Andrew Jackson. The House resumed the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. A n item of $4,000 for the family of the late Mr. Hawk was agreed to. It was decided to appropriate $70,000 to meet the expenses of thirty-five contestants to seats, and to set aside $20,000 to pay the bills of a commission to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico. Mr. Holman offered an amendment to appropriate $15,000 to enable the President to carry out the statute to promote civil-service reform. Mr. Horr opened the ball in opposi ion, and Mr. Willis responded with a stoiy, the discussion being continued by Messrs. Cox, Reed, Springer and Robeson, when the proposition was adopted. The bill was then passed by 138 to 49. _ Bills were passed by the Senate, at its session on the 14th inst., to increase to SSO per month the pension granted to the widow of Gen. Custer, and to give a like amount to the daughte of President Taylor. Mr. Hill reported back the bill to pnnish Postmasters for making false certificates of the arrival and departure of mails. The Internal Revenue bill was taken up, and Mr. Bayard spoke for hours, holding that the cumbersome machinery of the Revenue Bureau was vmdimiuished, while the reductions in taxation were insignificant. Mr. Beck offered an amendment reducing by 10 cents per pound the ttx on manufactured tobacco, when the bill went over. In the House a long debate took j place over paying the expenses attending the 1 sickness and burial of President Garfield, during which the physicians received a severe over- | hauling from Messrs. Blackburn and Springer. Mr. Blackburn attacked the surgeons for their management of the President’s case, eulogized the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and urged that all claimants be sent to the courts. Mr. Taylor, representing Garfield’s district, announced that the President’s widow would never litigate the bills of the physicians. Mr. Springer remarked that if only $35,000 j were allotted to the doctors there would be a more unseemly quarrel than occurred over Guiteau’s body. Mr. Hiscock regretted that the couutry should be treated to such a scene. Mr. Dunnell thought the settlement of the matter should be left to the House. Mr. Williams appealed to members to increase the amount fixed in the amendment and stop the wrangling. The amendment was non-con-curred in by 78 to 83. Mr. Taylor then introduced a bill, which was passed by a-unanimous vote, to pay Mrs. Garfield $50,009, less any sum advanced to her husband on salary account. A bill was passed to refer to the Court of Claims all demands against the Government.